As the calls for clemency for Jonathan Pollard continue to intensify, Henry A. Kissinger, an elder statesman, well-respected diplomat, and experienced member of the United States intelligence community, has become the latest American governmental leader to issue a public call for Pollards release. Pollard has spent more than 25 years languishing in a federal prison for passing classified information to Israel, an ally of the United States.

Kissinger, who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, sent a letter to President Obama requesting that he commute Pollards sentence to time served (the full text of the letter appears below and a copy is attached).

Like former Congressman Lee Hamilton, who also recently called on the President to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard, Kissinger has served as a member of the Presidents Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which is a nonpartisan and independent body of the Intelligence Community that has full access to the complete range of intelligence-related information. Kissinger was a member of the Presidents Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board at the time of Pollards sentencing.

He did it for money. They always say he passed it on to an ally. It does not matter. Another ******** govt worker who takes a job where you are required to keep secrets and he gave em up. Don’t take the job if you cannot do what is required.

A few quotes from Henry K back in the day:
“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer “There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”...Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac” The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it’s their fault.
The betrayer of South Vietnam and Taiwan can burn in hell along with that traitor Pollard.

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posted on 03/07/2011 2:50:43 PM PST
by dainbramaged
(If you want a friend, get a pit bull.)

Israel tries to get intel we have about their Muslim neighbors and aren't sharing with Israel. The spying is for a good purpose, but it's still spying, period. I we didn't want Israel to have the intel, it was for a good reason (and it's not like Israel never hid intel from us).

Let's see... election next year... Obama has no particular love for Israel... the guy is a convicted spy...

Plus:

Apart from Woolsey, most other intelligence officials have been adamantly opposed to the release of Pollard, a Navy intelligence analyst who provided thousands of highly classified documents to his Israeli handlers. Former CIA Director George Tenet reportedly threatened to quit when the Clinton administration considered it.

From here: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2011/03/kissinger_release_israeli_spy.html

Pollard compromised the Agency’s RASIN manual. He thought it was only going to Israel, a heinous act of treason all by itself, but one of the Israeli recipients passed it on. The manual ended up on the internet. At the time, it was a security disaster. Now, most of the information has perished, but it gave away our state-of-the-art knowledge of our enemies’ signals. Ask any current or former Agency employee if this guy should be released. You will get a resounding “NO!”

I say no! The law must apply equally to all. There must be a reason why George W. Bush, the greatest friend in the WH Israel ever had, did not pardon . The Israeli gov’t isn’t too keen on pardon either. I would be interested in knowing the reason.
If Obama does pardon this convicted traitor, it will be because he thinks it will help him recapture the Jewish vote, which he has somewhat lost.
All this Kissinger/Bilderburger (I’ll have mine well done on a toasted roll, please) is absurd. More kook stuff? We need facts not wacko conspiracy theories!

Worse than Aldrich Ames who single handedly shut down the CIA's "eyes and ears". In 1985 the names of every "human asset" that the U.S. had working for it in the USSR.

He sold the KGB the names of twenty-five "sources." These twenty-four men and one woman, all Russians, were immediately arrested and ten were sentenced to what the KGB euphemistically referred to as vyshaya mera (the highest measure of punishment). The condemned person was taken into a room, made to kneel, then shot in the back of the head with a large caliber handgun so his face would be made unrecognizable. He compromised every CIA operative in the Soviet Union. -

Matter of fact, there is speculation that Pollard was the one who took the fall for Ames.

The idea that you offer no explanation, and then state blythely that no matter who one can name who ratted out on his fellow Americans and caused death (and mayhem) and recieved little or no punishment while suggesting that Pollard was worse is extremely suspicious.

I think Walker did a lot more damage to us than Pollard did. Ron Pelton, who used to work for me, is still in prison for selling secrets to the KGB. Ron did some serious damage. He’s been in for over 25 years, and I don’t think he’ll ever breathe free air again.

Those of us who know exactly the damage Pollard caused, need not, and bound by law as we are, we can not play your stupid game.

Pollard sold information to the government of Israel. Israel sold the information to the former USSR.

That the former USSR does not exist anymore is not due to any action of the Israeli government, but despite it.

Pollard will never be pardoned. Israel will never again be considered an allied nation worthy of special trust, as they once were, before their admitted involvement with Pollard.

Why do you play games here? In less than five years, the reason Pollard will die behind bars as a convicted traitor to the USA will become declassified to the point of open knowledge. There is no way Israel will come out of the whole affair looking like a true ally to the USA. Perhaps that will clearly explain why many subsequent USA government administrations appear to be ambivalent towards Israel.

“Unfortunately he offered no arguments to respond to my questions about Aldrich Ames and neither did you.”

You labeled it “Extremely Suspicious”. Why would you use a term like that? It’s like you KNOW the poster is guilty of something - or at least he APPEARS to be, and sometimes it’s the appearance of impropriety that is important, isn’t it?

You don’t remember your previous totally unsubstantiated accusations of antisemitism levied at me over the same topic. And why would you? You were in rare form.

You are a race-baiter. Your defense of Pollard boils down to nuances (to you) of how he is treated compared to non-Jew spies, and ultimately your defense is a thin gruel of “you hate Jews....unless you want Pollard released”

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